Most of our days are spent asking one of two questions:
What just happened?
What's going to happen?
We spend our time looking back, trying to figure out what's going on and how to make sense of what happened to us before.
Or we spend our time looking ahead, wondering what's going to happen and how we will deal with whichever way it ends up playing out.
As such, we are often filled either with regret and remorse or with anxiety and unbelief. Our time is consumed either processing or panicking. We are working through whatever happened before or working to avoid whatever we dread is coming next.
So we are at any given point and time always between one of these two realities. We live in the time between what happened? and what's going to happen?
But God does not call us to dwell on the past or to panic about the future.
Philippians 3:13-16
One thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained
We let the past rest on the bosom of Christ and we set the future aside to His wisdom and in the meantime, we run. We hold on to what we have (forgiveness and hope) which allows us to let go of our perseverating over yesterday or tomorrow. Forgiveness leaves the past behind and hope leaves the future ahead and allows us to live today by grace through faith in Christ alone.
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